Re: [PATCH] Documentation: exception-tables.rst: Fix the wrong steps referenced

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> writes:

> Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com> writes:
>
>> When it was in text format, it correctly hardcoded steps 8a to 8c.
>> However, after it was converted to RST, the sequence numbers were
>> auto-generated during rendering and became incorrect after some
>> steps were inserted.
>>
>> Change it to refer to steps a to c in a relative way.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/arch/x86/exception-tables.rst | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/exception-tables.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/exception-tables.rst
>> index efde1fef4fbd..562d1bc6d448 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/arch/x86/exception-tables.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/exception-tables.rst
>> @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ vma occurs?
>>     c) execution continues at local label 2 (address of the
>>        instruction immediately after the faulting user access).
>>  
>> -The steps 8a to 8c in a certain way emulate the faulting instruction.
>> +The steps a to c above in a certain way emulate the faulting instruction.
>>  
>
> Those steps render as 1, 2, and 3 ... where did "a to c" come from?

Ah, I see where my confusion came from.

The fix is obvious: indent the line that was changed so that it is a
part of the bulleted item it's talking about.  I've applied your patch
with that change.

Thanks,

jon